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Gorgas, an army surgeon, knew this human wave was flesh food for a ravenous predator that thrived in Panama's tropical environs: Stegomyia fasciata.
Maass offered to be bitten by the mosquito Stegomyia, suspected as a carrier, in order that she might help, in her words, "to add to man's knowledge of the disease and to be a better nurse.
DENV is transmitted to humans by Stegomyia aegypti (formerly Aedes aegypti) mosquitoes.
 
 
 
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